I just played the Sage quest line on Alderon, and when you fight the Jedi Master at the end, she has a channeled ability that looks awesome. She chucks big rocks with this awesome animation, similar to a channeled project. The animation asset is already in the game, and it's a channeled ability just like the terrible looking pebble storm (TK Throw). Why not replace TK throw with this cool animation? If you added this animation in, I wouldn't play any other class, that's how cool it is. Please give that animation to the sage, preferably in place of TK throw.

I am just wondering if it is economical dps wise, or if stealth and backstab are more effective in the long run. Just trying to see how more experienced people play their ops

They have fun gameplay for sure, and I love the backstory, but I have to agree that they need a wider array of skills. The same old knife attacks again and again get old. Also, hidden strike u dont get to level 36 or 37 and it's your bread and butter sneak attack. Which is totally retarded game design. I would like to see more variation in the attacks, maybe some martial arts moves and stuff. Its all knife, knife, knife, backstab, repeat.

Shoulds ops being using their agent abilities like snipe, cover system and explosive drone? Or is it all running around backstabbing?

anyone?

So I am playing my operative and wondering if cover is still a viable combat option. Do operatives still use their imperial agent abilities like explosive drone, cover and snipe? or is it all running around backstabbing people?

Really? What moron thought of this idea? Non force users running around throwing force lightning and casting force choke? I mean really?

The masters were defeated in order 66 by deception, not open combat. Lord Malgus is an equal to Satele. The jedi in the colloseum all faced incredible numbers. The video of the trooper taking out sith was just a marketing pack of BS to boost trooper rolls. You really think a soldier stands a chance verse a force user? And you call one failed headbutt melee combat?

Yes, but there was a difference between Maul, and Dooku. Maul was a genuine apprentice, Dooku was a full fledged sith lord. Maul was never refered to as a Sith Lord, only as an apprentice. Maul was a new apprentice of Sideous

I see your point, but there is a way of trying to be subtle about the massive time skip for entertainment value purposes.

Maul was an apprentice, not a sith lord. L2SW

The only master in the colosseum was Windu. The rest were regular jedi, and all they could manage to gather, as was said in the story. Like I said, the title of master is only given to the most powerful jedi alive. So by killing a master, that is like killing Satele.

First of all a couple things... There is a reason they are called MASTERS. Luke Skywalker has the same power in his blood as the lord he beat. And Grievas was not a Sith Lord

Anyone agree?

I mean come on, Anakin Skywalker was gifted in the force too, you did not see him soloing Count Dooku 3 days after finishing the trials.... You did not see him POwning Yoda. The whole storyline is a joke and a disrespect to Star Wars. Am I really the only one that thinks it feels really ridiculous to be taking out MASTERS so early in the storyline? It totally kills the experience for my consular, which sucks because I like the class itself. Whoever wrote the consular story did a terrible job. Jedi masters train for many many years. Masters like Dooku, or Sideous often require several jedi to take down. Only when Anakin reached his full potential with his extrodanairy gifts, was he able to defeat Dooku.

I personally don't like EA. They are cheap, quantity over quality, corner cutting, shiesty salesmen. They picked a ****** engine to run a massive mmo, because it was cheap and it is causing loads of issues because of it. Because of their unstable engine, they were forced to create way too many servers with low population caps just to keep above water. Now the servers are paying for it with horrible performance in warzones and player heavy areas, and dead server populations - for the republic faction especially.

You are on the defensive as if I am hoping for the games failure, like some GW2 fanboi. I am hoping for its success. The status of the servers had me worried. Was a simple obersvation. Coupled with the fact that I rolled my first republic toon to find out there was a whopping 50 people in fleet. How do you find instances with that?

Did I not post exactly that in my post? Way to read. And there is more than a few light.

You are right on the wow point. I logged into wow to check their servers and 90 percent are medium and low. But then again I think their server caps are MUCH higher.

You mean the 50 people in republic fleet atm on Bloodworthy?

I am actually glad if this is true, relieved actually. I love the game and I want it to succeed

Around 7 is prime time. And that many light and standard servers at that time is def not a good sign

So, it is prime time right now on the east coast in usa and there is one heavy server, 8 light servers and the rest standard. I see doom for SWTOR. So friggen sad. FU Electronic Arts for messing up one of the greatest potential games of 2012.

What's your fps in Alderan?

These are exactly the people (poster in quote) running around saying "I don't have fps problems". They don't even understand what an FPS problem is! 30 FPS on the system specs many of these people have, is absolutly horrible. Quad core I5, 8 gigs of ram and a gtx 570, I should not drop below 60, EVER. I can play Skyrim max settings without ever dropping below 60, but I frequently get drops in the 30s in this game. That's an FPS problem! Yes, warzones and the like are PLAYABLE for me at 30 or 40 fps. But I did not pay 2500 euro for a gaming pc to play at 30 FPS- And yes, I can see the difference between 30 FPS and 60 FPS. If you can't, you're either an idiot, or frakkin blind.